From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg) Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc Date: 30 Jun 1993 20:29:59 GMT
In <1993Jun29.044302.6464@spcvxb.spc.edu> terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:
>In article <PCG.93Jun25164008@decb.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>> The Princeton/ATT 'lcc' compiler is extremely small, and much faster
>> than 'gcc'. 'gcc' is a monstrosity.
>>
> I just made a BSDI kernel (presumably about the same size as a 386BSD or
>NetBSD kernel). The "make depend" took 56 seconds elapsed and the "make"
>took a little bit under 5 minutes elapsed. I say "a little bit under" as
>ntp was adjusting the clock, so the reported time was off by a few seconds.
> This was on a 486DX2-66, Adaptec 1542B, Seagate ST42400N drive. This was
Just for fun I timed a complete rebuild of the NetBSD kernel using a (gcc 1.39)
cross-compiler on a SparcStation 10: 1 minute and 50 seconds.
Unsurprisingly, my kernel version number is now 0.1.219 :-)
-pk